Making the Best of It

   Since being bound to the Bayou for the entire pandemic (by doctor's orders), I have found that I need to make my own entertainment or at least seek it out wherever it may be hiding.  For two years now, I have rarely left the place and few people have visited (again, doctor's orders).  Then for the past year, things even took a tighter turn.  The still unexplained episode that threw me in the emergency room confined me to a smaller area yet.  It was then that I crowned myself as "Queen of the Small Gardens".  My search for enjoyment seemed to be harder but I was not going to let some virus or some malady totally blow my outlook.  I turned more to the flora and fauna that was to be found literally in my "own backyard".  Needing to "do", I planted every available space with whatever seeds I had on hand.  Oh, man!  What a mishmash of gardens grew!  Vegetables were mixed in with flowers, vines climbed on anything that was within reach and gardening tools became my best friends. 

  This morning while out surveying the gardens for possible frost damage, I was elated to find that the peas were actually flourishing.  Tiny pods were dangling amongst the leaves and showing great promise of filling out with tasty peas!  In my excitement, I started thinking of how these (basically) little seed pods were like the plants jewels.  People wear jewelry...plants wear flowers and seed pods.  Nice!

  In a few weeks, the garden should start producing delightful goodies for our table.  Cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, mustard greens, swiss chard and, yes, green peas!  Maybe being quarantined is not such a bad thing, after all.  Maybe...just maybe...I needed this to reflect upon the better things in life instead of all the trappings of a commercial world that is shoved down our throats.  Life is good, folks, life is good.